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Climate Change Threatens China’s Yangtze River Basin
TakePart Social Action Network —
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paulmannixs Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Climate change threatens to unleash severe storms, droughts, floods across China’s Yangtze River Basin in the coming decades, unless proper mitigation measures are taken to protect the region from catastrophe, according to a new study from the WWF. While we should ...6 hours ago -
US health care sector is a fairly green giant
Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com —
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Health care, a giant in the U.S. economy, may be a gentle giant when it comes to greenhouse gases....10 hours ago -
Nations vulnerable to global warming present demands: carbon levels below 350ppm and billions in aid
Mongabay.com News —
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A group of nations especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change have released a declaration calling for developed countries to keep CO2 emission below 350 parts per million (ppm) and to give 1.5 percent of their gross domestic product to aid developing nations in adapting to the myriad impacts of climate ...12 hours ago -
What Are the Consequences of Copenhagen?
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If you’re like some of us over here at TakePart, you can’t get enough coverage of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. We even cover a lot of the news ourselves here. And that’s why it’s so exciting that over at The Daily Climate (TDC), today they are starting a four-part special report ...12 hours ago -
Green Books Campaign: Let Me Out! How to enjoy the school run
Green Options —
Authority: 147
Editor’s Note: This review is part of the Green Books campaign . Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. This campaign is organized ...13 hours ago -
If Cap and Trade Doesn’t Work, Obama will Make it Work
The Foundry —
Authority: 758
All the talk in Washington is surrounding a government health insurance plan, but there’s a little discussed insurance plan in the Boxer-Kerry cap and trade bill that’s worth some attention. The Senate version of the cap and trade bill includes a section that grants the President the authority to “direct ...13 hours ago -
M&M’S® and MARS Going Green? New Solar Garden at Headquarters in New Jersey
CleanTechnica —
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Candy giant MARS, parent company of M&M’S®, DOVE®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, 3 MUSKETEERS®, and TWIX®, turned on a huge new solar array (a “solar garden”) at its headquarters in New Jersey today. No matter what you think of candy food like this, it is good to see such a company going solar. Popular with ...14 hours ago -
EPA intervenes on video by two employees
Alan Gregory's Conservation News —
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An interesting, and timely, sidelight exposed in this article from today’s Science section of the NY Times .16 hours ago -
Glacier retreat in Antarctic opens up new carbon sink
Thaindian News —
Authority: 715
London, Nov 10 (IANS) Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula.This remarkable colonisation is having a beneficial impact on climate change. As the blooms die, phytoplankton sinks ...1 day ago -
Climate Justice Fast (Video)
TakePart Social Action Network —
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The Climate Justice Fast began on November 6th as an international hunger strike to demand effective and justice action on climate change at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen. Participants will refrain from eating food and drink only water for extended intervals and in some cases until the summit this ...1 day ago -
Global warming threatens desert life
Mongabay.com News —
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There have been numerous studies showing how climate change is impacting a variety of environments—from the Arctic to coral reefs to alpine—but how could a warmer world damage deserts, already the worlds warmest and driest environments?1 day ago -
Study Finds More Value in Peat CO2 Credits
Environmental Leader —
Authority: 620
Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports Reuters.Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are released when peatlands are logged or drained for agriculture, and even more when the dried bogs catch fire and ...1 day ago -
Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 9
Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy —
Authority: 545
That’s not lice causing that scratching on your head (at least, we hope not) — it’s just a lot of head scratchers in today’s hot green news roundup . Stop the itch of curiosity right here! Now here’s a question that’s been keeping millions up at night! Which is greener: Going into the refrigerator ...1 day ago -
New Zealand Environment Court Says No to Huge Wind Farm
CleanTechnica —
Authority: 627
What would have been the Southern Hemisphere’s largest wind farm, a $2 billion NZD ($1.4 billion USD) and 630 MW wind farm in New Zealand, is not happening because New Zealand’s Environment Court says that it would ruin the surrounding landscape. This project would have powered over a million homes and made a ...1 day ago -
Statement following Lord Stern comments on climate change and meat consumption.
1stAngel Arts Magazine —
Authority: 154
In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.” He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat ...2 days ago -
Greenhouse gas emission statistics
Robert Kyriakides's Weblog —
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When we talk about greenhouse gas emissions we do not always understand which greenhouse gases are most important and the sources of emissions. The following information comes from the World Resources Institute Proportion of Greenhouse Gases emitted in relation to each other Carbon dioxide 77% ...3 days ago -
YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...3 days ago -
KlimaForum09: The People’s Climate Summit (Video)
TakePart Social Action Network —
Authority: 622
While there may be some question about who will attend the UN Climate Change Conference, and what they will accomplish , you can be sure that the public will have an opportunity to discuss climate change in Copenhagen at the KlimaForum09. Billed as The People’s Climate Summit, the free event will ...4 days ago -
Developing Countries Threaten To Walk Out of Climate Summit
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rolando.pujols Flickr photostream Developing countries have threatened to walk out of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen if rich nations did not commit to greater reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and more funding for climate costs. While I can understand being frustrated by talk that the ...4 days ago -
Chickens Home to Roost: The Climate is most Foul
Fourth World Eye —
Authority: 124
“If we don’t take urgent and ambitious action, the reality is that some small island developing states will not be around within a couple of decades - certainly not by the end of the century.” So spoke Barbados Delegate to the climate change preparatory talks Selwin Hart expressing the frustration of island ...4 days ago
